MACC reviewed Art in Teaching, Science programs

Moberly Area Community College’s Board of Trustees met Monday night (Oct. 7), to discuss a couple of programs, their annual Assessment Report, and their Master plan.

The meeting was a work session, said MACC President Jeff Lashley, in talks with the MMI Wednesday morning (Oct. 9), dealing with a few standard-practice checks into the way they run the college.

“We did our two academic review programs for the year,” he said. “This year, we did our Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) review and our Associate in Science review.”

Lashley explained that the AAT “is the program [students] take if they’re going into teaching,” featuring curriculum and education courses that prepare them to transfer to an institution where they can receive their Bachelors degree in such, while the Science program “prepares student to transfer most typically to the University of Missouri or the Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, for engineering.”

“They have very precise articulation,” Lashley said. “When our students transfer, they are right on track with the other students in the programs. They come in as juniors.”

He noted that “both programs showed to be healthy programs with good enrollment, good student completion rates, and good faculty.”

“The program reviews were the bulk of the session,” Lashley said. “I also gave the board our annual assessments.”

This reviews the assessment activity at the college, he said.

“We are just assessing all of the different outcomes.”

Finally, the board looked over their Master Plan during the work session Monday.

“It is revised every two years,” Lashley said, and contains “goals and objectives that we are currently working on meeting.”